Same.
Same..
Seriously, nobody on the left thought Reagan had a prayer when he ran... look how that turned out.
We all like to laugh at her but to a lot on the right she's a credible Palin.
He'd been the governor of California and a successful one at that.
Palin's Alaska record was undistinguished, to say the least.
And the Gipper, in spite of being a patron saint to the GOP, wouldn't have a hope these days. Far too liberal, though he maintained to the end of his days (or rather, until his mind melted away) that health care is a communist plot, which would go over well at the moment. Likewise Nixon, definitely Ike. Nowadays they'd be centrist democrats.